Cottage Cheese Muffins – Extraordinaire

My mom will be 84 this summer—and while there are few recipes she has the energy to pull together, she’s still making these Cottage Cheese Muffins. When cottage cheese is on sale she scoops up three containers.

The only thing these Cottage Cheese Muffins have in common with muffins is that they are formed in muffin tins. They are more like heavenly, delicate cheese bagels without the sugary pastry wrapper.

Preheat oven to 400F. Lightly oil a 12 cup silicone muffin pan with coconut or olive oil. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Fill the tray with the batter. Bake for 20-25 minutes until it begins to bronze. Allow the muffins to cool to just warm before running a knife around the edges and removing them from the muffin pan. Serve with Greek yogurt and a dollop of Blackcurrant Jam. Delicious served warm. Savoury Cottage Cheese Muffins

Preheat oven to 400F. Lightly oil a 12 cup silicone muffin pan with olive oil. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Fill the tray with the batter. Bake for 20-25 minutes until it just begins to bronze. Allow the muffins to cool to just warm before running a knife around the edges and removing them from the muffin tray.

Thanks to my mom for sharing her wonderful Cottage Cheese Muffin recipe. My sister Julia adds in fresh vanilla and pine nuts. They both use silicone muffin pans, popping out the muffins when cool. Because the batter is sticky, the muffins are hard to remove from regular metal tins and hard to separate from muffin papers. You can buy silicone muffin pans at Canadian Tire.

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These look yummy! Can you cut down on the butter without sacrificing flavour and texture? Do you think adding blueberries to the batter would work? This is a very interesting way to use cottage cheese!

It would take Herculean effort to limit portion to one muffin. But on latest thinking, the problem is not butter but white flour. So the question is, is there a substitute for that? – not wholemeal flour, which would sacrifice flavour and texture. And yes, your mom is a phenomenal cook. .